As suggested above, this was an enchanting, magical and gripping film. The integration of true-life events, personal recollection and fantasy was seamlessly integrated and the rotoscope technique (as also used by the director in the equally but differently marvelous A Scanner Darkly)
Here the technique with its mid-way visual point between ‘real’ film and ‘artificial’ cartoon or drawing was ideal for the story where the imagination of the central character was as real to him as the events he was watching on the television and in in his idyllic home life.
The picture given of life in Florida at that time was warmly sentimental but in the best way – not sickly and rebarbative. I definitely had many attacks of the ‘warm fuzzies’ during my viewing and was totally involved throughout.